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11-letter words containing h, e, r, i

  • benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
  • bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
  • big brother — People sometimes use Big Brother to refer to a person, government, or organization when they think it has complete control over people and is always checking what they do.
  • big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
  • bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
  • bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
  • biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • bird cherry — a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus padus, with clusters of white flowers and small black fruits
  • birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
  • birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
  • birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
  • bitter herb — an Old World herb, Centaurium erythraea, used dried in medicine as a tonic.
  • bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
  • bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • borohydride — any compound, such as sodium borohydride, which contains the radical BH4
  • botheration — bother
  • brain death — Brain death occurs when someone's brain stops functioning, even though their heart may be kept beating using a machine.
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
  • breatharian — a person who believes that it is possible to subsist healthily on air alone
  • breathiness — (of the voice) characterized by audible or excessive emission of breath.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridle hand — (of a horseback rider) the hand, usually the left hand, that holds both reins or both pairs of reins, leaving the other hand free to manage a whip, crop, lariat, or the like.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
  • brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • broken hill — a town in SE Australia, in W New South Wales: mining centre for lead, silver, and zinc. Pop: 19 834 (2001)
  • brotherlike — like a brother
  • brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
  • bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
  • bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
  • bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
  • bur chervil — a plant of the carrot family, Anthriscus caucalis, that is related to and resembles chervil
  • burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
  • bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
  • butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • cantharides — a diuretic and urogenital stimulant or irritant prepared from the dried bodies of Spanish fly (family Meloidae, not Cantharidae), once thought to be an aphrodisiac
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
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